The Missing ‘Muralist’

When Franklin D.
Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as a way for people
to escape poverty in Depression-era America, he commissioned artists of all
types to create beautiful and unique works of art, including huge murals that
still span cities across the country. A new novel by award-winning author B.A.
Shapiro tells the riveting story of one WPA artist whose mysterious
disappearance on the eve of World War II remains unsolved decades later.

Set in New York City
and moving fluidly in time between the America of 1939 and the present day, The
Muralist tells a dynamic and passionate tale of art, history, love and
politics. The past comes alive through Alizée, a talented WPA painter whose
benefactress is Eleanor Roosevelt and whose friends include famous real-life
artists Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. When Alizée disappears
in1940, no one—including her family, desperate to flee war-torn France for the
safety of the United States—knows what happened to her. More than seven decades
later, her great-niece, an artist herself working at the famous Christie’s
auction house, stumbles on an old WPA-commissioned painting that just might
reveal the secrets of the past. B.A. Shapiro’s entertaining thriller brings to
life the early days of Abstract Expressionism and today’s New York art world
with brilliant authenticity and originality.

The author of seven
novels, including the best-selling The Art Forger, Shapiro is also the author of four
screenplays and one nonfiction book. Her newest release, The Muralist,
is the #1 Indie Next Pick for November. She will speak at Boswell Book Co. at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 1.

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